John bousfield



J. BOUSFIELD. DEVICE FOR PROTECTING WO-ODEN BUCKETSWHEN PACKED FORTRANSPORTATION. No.174,34 7 Patented March 7,1876.

WITNESSES.

STATES.

PATENT; OFFICE.

JOHN BOUSFIE-LD, or CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO ADISON H.

DELAMATER, OF SAME PLACE. H

IMPROVEMENTlN DEVICES FOR PROTECTINGWOODENBUCKETSWHEN PACKED FORTRANSPORTATION.

Specification forming part'o'fLetters Patent No- 174,347, dated March'7, 1876 application filed 1 August 9, 1875. V

To all tohom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, JOHN BOUSFIELD, of Cleveland, in the county ofGuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and ImprovedPacking for Pails, &c., of which the following is a full, clear, andcomplete description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,making part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is an outsideview of pails packed one within the other. Fig. 2 is a verticaltransverse section. Fig. 3' is an inside view. Fig. 4 is a detached viewof the material used for wrapping or packing the pails in nesting them.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The nature of this invention relates to a certain "material for packingordinary wooden pails, tubs, &c., in nesting them for transportation;and the object of the same is to protect said articles from abrasion andinjury while in transit, or while being handled.

In consequence of the soft nature of the material of which ordinarypails and tubs are made, and the paint applied to them, and alsofrom-"their beingnested for transportation, they I are in consequenceliable to become bruised,

scratched, dirty, or otherwise injured, thereby depreciating their valuein view of their damaged appearance and condition. Toguard against thisinjury to the articles specified, it

becomes necessary to pack or nest them' with much care. To thisend loosestraw is generally used, which is spread carefully in one pail, and thenext one placed therein upon it. The straw thus used can protect onlythe lower part of the outside of one pail and the inside of the other.

This material for packing is not reliable, and only imperfectly and butpartially accomplishes the end desired, for the reason that straw isliable to workout from between the pails, leaving them in direct contactwith each other, easing an abrasion of the inside and outside of them.The straw in no event protects the whole of the outside of the pails.The iipper part of the one pail not inclosed by the other, into which itis placed, is exposed to injury, and is often bruised, scratched, andthe paint rubbed ofi' or dirtied by its rough contact with the exposedparts of other nests of pails, and which parts need .as much protection.

To afford this protection, and also to prevent the abrasion of that partof the pails within each other, 'isthe purpose of my invention, andwhich result I accomplish by the use of thin sheets of wood orscale-board. Views of such sheets are shown in Fig. 4.

The sheet may be cut curving, as shown at O, or as represented at D E.The particular shape of the material, however, is not a matter ofconsequence. Said boards or sheets of wood, when bent up, will fit theinside of a pail, A, forming a lining to the sides, and extending abovethe top of a pail, B, nested therein,and so on through the wholenumberofneste'd pails. as a wrapper or packing to the pails is shown atC, Fig. 2, in which it will be seen to form a lining to the pail A, anda wrapper to the pail B, as shown in Fig. 1.

It will be obvious that, by the use of thin sheets of wood, or itsequivalent, as a packing or wrapper for the pails, in the manner asabove described, those parts of the pails which set into each other innesting them are not only protected from abrasion, but also those partsout of the pails are alike protected from becoming bruised, rubbed, or.scratched by contact with each other. When the nests of pails are stoodup together in storing the same, or during transportation, with theexception of the lowermost pail of the nest, all of them are protectedby the wrappers. When removed therefrom, the pails are clean and bright,and as free from bruises, scratches, or other injuries as they were onleaving the factory; hence there is no depreciation in their marketvalue. Also, by the use of sheets of wood it cannot come out frombetween the pails, although the contact of the one pail within the othermay not be all around, but .at one or two places only. Said one or twopoints of contact will hold the sheets in place between the pails. This,however, is not the case when pails are packed with straw, for the strawwill work A sheet or sheets of wood thus applied 1 shrinking ot' thepails in one direction or diameter; hence they become of unequaldiameter, and cannot touch each other all around when nested; thereforethe straw becomes loose and falls out, as aforesaid, it not being heldin close contact between the pails, and also the straw stalks separatefrom each other in handling and transportation, causing the pails to rubupon each other, and thereby marring their appearance. It also makes thenests of pails and tubs much neater in appearance, and

causes no litter in unpacking them.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture and trade, the improved pail or tubprotector herein described, consisting of a thin sheet of veneer orscale board, wrapped or bent into a circular form, tapering toward oneend, which is adapted to be set into a pail and rest upon the bottom,while a second pail is nested into-the 11pper end of said protector, andwholly covered thereby, for the purpose set forth.

J. H. BURRIDGE, A. F. CORNELL.

